Sydney Sprint Weekend

It is not often that we get the chance to compete in 2 State League Events right on your doorstep
The Sydney Sprints weekend commenced bright and early on Saturday morning in the scenic grounds of Sydney University.
The run at Syd Uni started with a NOL 4 person relay 2 boys / 2 girls in each team
Catherine Murphy had a great run and her team finished 2nd overall. Also running NOL were 3 of Uringa's up and coming juniors. Georgia Jones, Sophie Jones and Finn MacKay. These 4 Uringans did really well especially Finn and Sophie who were competing well above their normal classes. Unfortunately for both Georgia and Finn other members in their teams mis-punched whilst Sophie's team finished a very credible 14th place.
After the NOL Relay a 2 person relay was on for the non NOL runners. Fastest home from Uringa was the team of Ant and Jim in 9th place. in 18th was Linda and Karen Blatchford. Maggie Jones, running with Hilary Wood finished in 31st and Lisa running with Sue Key was in 39th place. Ian ran in a relay but unfortunately I cannot find his team result.

Relay individual results.

Place	Name	Class	Time
22	Georgia Jones	NOL Relay - Leg 1	13:18
67	Sophie Jones	NOL Relay - Leg 1	17:50
74	Finn Mackay	NOL Relay - Leg 3	26:37
31	Catherine Murphy	NOL Relay - Leg 4	14:04
20	Linda Sesta	Open Relay - Leg 1	15:06
21	Ant Nolan	Open Relay - Leg 1	15:07
28	Ian Jones	Open Relay - Leg 1	15:31
74	Lisa Lampe	Open Relay - Leg 1	20:09
97	Serena Doyle	Open Relay - Leg 1	29:00
34	Jim Mackay	Open Relay - Leg 2	15:55
63	Margaret Jones	Open Relay - Leg 2	18:22

Moving a few kilometres south and a world apart as far as terrain goes brought runners to Sir Joseph banks Park. This area has a very interesting history as a zoo, garden, athletics venue and now orienteering. Course Planner Matt Peters certainly set some very interesting legs in the fast park lands and complex sand dunes
This was a Uringa event and a large workforce descended on the park to set up for the event. As well as running the event Uringa has a connection with Zonta and a cake stall was a feature of the food consumption of the day.
2 X 1st placing's, 6 X 2nd and 4 X 3rd was a great result. Well done to Jakob Doyle who is showing sound improvement in his performances in recent times. New to orienteering Regina and veteran orienteer Helen finished in 2nd. Jim and Ant continued their fine relay form in notching 1st positions. There are many photos of the area on facebook both Uringa and ONSW pages which highlighted the picturesque nature of the park
Packing up was fantastic and the gear trailer was in the driveway just after 7 ( would have been earlier but a stop for two of life's essentials milk and beer slowed us down.

 

Plac	Name	Class	Time
1	Jim Mackay	M45AS	17:16
1	Ant Nolan	M40A	16:45
2	Sophie Jones	W14A	11:53
2	Regina Haertsch	W OpenB	20:17
2	Helen Murphy	W65A	25:36
2	Jakob Doyle	M21AS	29:50
2	Brian Cleland	M75A	29:29
2	Linda Sesta	W45A	19:17
3	Georgia Jones	W20E HB	17:43
3	Penelope Field	W OpenB	31:38
3	Shane Doyle	M45A	15:55
3	Mary Jane Mahony	W65A	30:57
4	Finn Mackay	M14A	15:36
4	Ian Jones	M45A	17:20
5	Lisa Lampe	W55A	24:29
5	Margaret Jones	W45A	23:26
6	Gayle Shepherd	W45AS	28:46
6	Paul McLellan	M45A	18:39
8	Dave Lotty	M70A	27:17
9	Michael Warlters	M50A	22:43
11	Alice Westwood	W21E HA	25:04
14	Terry Murphy	M65A	32:43
15	Catherine Murphy	W21E HB	19:18
16	Matt Westwood	M21E HA	16:20
	Lawrence Jones	M20E HB	mispunched
	Zara Doyle	W16A	did not start
	Serena Doyle	W14A	did not start
	Maree Doyle	W21AS	did not start
	Maureen Ogilvie	W80A	did not start

Sunday saw us once more in the hallowed halls of learning. this time University of New South Wales. This was indeed the first ever orienteering race in the grounds and boy oh boy you certainly had to maintain map contact as the map was very intense.
Brian, Helen and Jim were on the victory podium and in 2nd was Mary Jane, Linda, Penny and Shane. Finn and Ant were 3rd placegetters.
Our elites Georgia 5th in W20E, Lawrence 16th in M20E and Alice 24th in W21E and Matt 34th in M21E all did well. Sprints are all about seconds a minute covers 10 places at times.
The coffee shop which was open certainly did a roaring trade.

 

Plac	Name	Class	Time
1	Brian Cleland	M75A	20:56
1	Helen Murphy	W65A	21:26
1	Jim Mackay	M45AS	16:26
2	Mary Jane Mahony	W65A	25:58
2	Penelope Field	W OpenB	40:39
2	Linda Sesta	W45A	19:42
2	Shane Doyle	M45A	16:51
3	Ant Nolan	M40A	22:14
3	Finn Mackay	M14A	25:17
4	Margaret Jones	W45A	22:28
4	Dick Ogilvie	M70A	19:31
5	Lisa Lampe	W55A	18:41
5	Ian Jones	M45A	18:32
5	Ron Pallas	M55AS	26:59
5	Georgia Jones	W20E	18:20
6	Serena Doyle	W14A	34:29
7	Gayle Shepherd	W45AS	25:02
8	Dave Lotty	M70A	26:26
9	Michael Warlters	M50A	20:28
16	Terry Murphy	M65A	37:45
16	Lawrence Jones	M20E	22:47
23	Catherine Murphy	W21E	19:03
24	Alice Westwood	W21E	19:52
32	Matt Westwood	M21E	22:25
	Zara Doyle	W16A	mispunched

Great weekend for all. Well done Uringa for their efforts in running a fantastic event.